Baby Name ? Controversial

[2021Mum]

I’ve just found out I’m expecting a baby girl. My partner and I plan on calling our little girl Rebel with the intention she will be Rebby for short after a very close friend. My family love the name and I was going to keep it a secret but my MIL found out my mum knew and pestered me to tell her. She hates the name (part of the reason I kind of didn’t want to tell her) and now I’m having second thoughts on a name we have loved for a long time. Is it such a bad name? She says people will just automatically assume ‘rebel’ as in troublemaker :(

From the colins dictionary: “ A rebel is a person who resists or defies rules or norms or rises up against the powers that be”

@Butterfly93

From the colins dictionary: “ A rebel is a person who resists or defies rules or norms or rises up against the powers that be”

I think we've already gauged that

I think there'll be more Rebels around because of Rebel Wilson. I think Rebbies cute

@AaronPurr

Would you like to be called Rebel? It's a very unusual name, and I suspect very few would actually go through life without changing it or resenting their parents for it at some point. I'm not going to say it's a bad name, but I don't think it's going to be fun constantly hearing jokes about your name.

Perhaps it would be better suited as a middle name, she can still have the nickname Rebby, but will have a more conventional name to fall back on.

This. I'd find it very hard to take anyone called Rebel seriously. Our names have a really significant impact on our destinies, and the unconscious assumptions people make about our class, education, promiscuity etc. Rebel sounds like the name of a pornstar/stripper💙 I wouldnt want people to think that about my daughter.